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stu_the_red wrote:Mourinho is a tactical expert.
When he's got quality players coming off the bench aswell that makes it even more impressive.
However Rafa is better. He also doesn't have the same quality of player coming off the bench yet influences as many games and against better sides with lesser quality players.
Frank Lampard again shown last night what he is, completely overated. All he contributed in the match was a penalty, he doesn't have the ability to do anything else. He's part of the reason England have no chance of winning the world cup.
stu_the_red wrote:St Michael, you can only bring on subs you have on the bench.
Not all players perform from the bench, infact most go missing. But it says something about your ability as a manager to change a game with subs regardless of who you bring on.
The thing he does best is he makes double and treble subs and takes off the right players. A single sub rarely changes the game pattern as they get sucked into it. A double can make a difference if you change properly. Mourinho is excellent at it, he's not as good as Benitez though.
red37 wrote:mourinho is fast becoming a joke figure who is never shy to antagonise other managers/players and officials in the game.
and frequently hits his target....this is all down to psychological games. and in this field he is a master.
the problem(for us) is when others rise to the bait. however you can sympathise with robson yesterday, when there is only so much patience a man can hold in him. confronted by the 'prancing, scowliing' drogba's antics right in front of the technical area, a saint would find difficulty in keeping any sort of composure under that kind of provocation....
i started off liking the guy, he seemed a breath of fresh air to a game that was becoming stale and predictable. and, when chelsea started to perform it was imo a good thing for the prem in general that once again 'characters' were starting to emerge....
now,.... i feel he is burning too many bridges, too easily.
and this is the alter-ego of the man. anyone who possesses a modicom of 'genius/eccentricity' in their bones is going to be unpredictable at best. at worst egolomaniac. and i believe he is haunted by the demons of anfield last may. the guy simply CANNOT get over the fact of HOW his team went out. never mind getting beaten fair and square... it was the manner of that result more than anything thats driven him to this level of mania. (personally i think he is an excellent gaffer)
i do not however relate anything he does/says to be in any way resemblant of brian clough. cloughie was an honest man at the end of the day and one that though himself well versed in the art of 'jiggery-pokery' would not and never resort to unfair sportsmanship, ie stalking off down the tunnel without acknowledgement of his opponents. criticising match officials to the point where either their livlihood or indeed their own mortality was in doubt. no i dont think clough was in that ilk.
but the ramping up of other teams and the pointing out of weaknesses in tactics/formations etc, is part of his game. he obviously is an obsessive where it comes to the 'small details'. we also have a manager that prefers to analysie every scenario.. and its variant. that doesnt make him a 'hate' figure and neither should it.
where he WILL ultimately shoot his own pheonix down, is in the more sinister claims and counter-claims. the play-acting the cheating referees. the blatant dis-respect of anybody opposite him. (3 minutes late out at the hawthorns at half-time) that is where jose mourinho is a disgrace...and a disrespectful one at that. for me, he doesnt need to go down that road, he is competent enough. and some will say its added a kind of 'spice' to our game....
i hope barcelona knock chelsea out on tuesday. end of story. why?. because im a liverpool fan and i happen to believe rafa benitez is the better (if you want it in those terms) of the two when it does come down to the ' interpretation' of those small details.
then again, he is better than rijkaard also,....
however for the good of the (largely) sportsmanship in the premiership, most will want their shot to topple the leaders, it makes the league competitive. it made liverpool (not quite) public enemy number one in the seventies/eighties.
but good value anyhow.
in some ways its perverse to want chelsea to fall, only then to come to the realisation that, we (if through?) could end up playing their conquerers!!
still, when your at the top, life is full of people trying to knock-you off your perch? eh sir alex!
so, get over mourinho. at least he is great comedy value.![]()
he has the look of a haunted man. perhaps mr clough made sure that he wasnt to be emulated in back to back european cups last may, from his own lofty seat at anfield.... destiny maybe.
but until he wins this uefa champions league holiest of grails... with chelsea, im afraid he'll stop at no line of decency along the way. fair? hmmm its a modern world now. greed is king.
this is why the halls of anfield are smeared with humility. not horse muck.
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